Spring Fling Cocktail (with Empress Gin)

My friend Erin and I have been swooning over this purple gin for quite some time, and we finally got it to make some pretty purple cocktails. We made two the day I got the gin, this was my favorite of the two (although both were darn good).

Makes 1 drink.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Empress Gin (I used Victoria Indigo Gin as it's the same but less expensive)
• 1 oz pomegranate juice
• 1 slice of grapefruit
• 3 oz Seltzer water (or tonic for a more powerful taste - honestly I was out of seltzer but tonic worked well, so feel free to do either) - also can sub grapefruit selzer water for both the seltzer and grapefruit slice.
• Lemon or Lime wheel to garnish

Instructions:

1. Fill a glass with ice (ideally a 10 oz glass)
2. Add pomegranate juice, squeeze slice of grapefruit into class then discard.  Top with seltzer water. 
3. Gently pour the gin on top. Garnish as desired.  

Notes: 

• I already needed grapefruit for the other drink and wasn't going to buy a grapefruit and grapefruit seltzer.  A squeeze of grapefruit along with normal seltzer or tonic worked very well.  But you can also use grapefruit setlzer, whatever works for you!
• The original recipe says to actually use pomegranates to make fresh pomegranate juice.  That seemed like a lot of work (and I'm honestly not sure how to juice a pomegranate... Just scoup out some arils and then squish them?  I suppose Google could tell me). They suggest this stating the juice is too dark. I decided to do the bottled juice, because, I donno, I'm busy.  Anyways, indeed the color was darker than the one on the original recipe, but I think it still looks pretty cool.  I think the dark is fun for winter and the light colored one would be pretty in spring.  If I get motivated to juice a pomegranate this spring I'll update... 

Adapted from: Superman Cooks